Example sentences of "[noun pl] has [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet by the end of the 1960s , institutions had once again become places of last resort , and over the past thirty years the numbers of youngsters admitted to institutions has declined sharply in all three countries ( Lammertyn and Antoons , 1990 ; Ploeg , 1986 ) . |
| 2 | The cost of replacing your possessions has risen greatly in recent years . |
| 3 | The Bar has lost by the gradual extension of county court jurisdiction ( where solicitors have the right of audience ) ; and the income limit for legal aid in civil cases has fallen well behind inflation , so that few people are now eligible for it . |
| 4 | However , its use in a wide variety of disciplines has grown dramatically in recent decades , to the point where it seems not only to be facilitating what was done before , but to be creating new possibilities . |
| 5 | With that thought in mind we have produced a chart which reveals the extent to which business involving the recording of Irish bands and artists has gone abroad in recent years . |
| 6 | The number of isolations of non-toxigenic C diphtheriae var gravis referred to the unit from laboratories that continue to screen all throat swabs for C diphtheriae has increased fivefold from 1990 to 1992 . |
| 7 | The campaign of Benson & Hedges has evolved remarkably over the past dozen years and has now reached a point at which the motifs chosen to dissemble the product are themselves classic symbols of dissembling — pretty fans for the summer months in 1988 , attractive fishing lures for the autumn . |
| 8 | Demand for the company 's breakfast cereals and snack food products has increased rapidly across Europe during the past two years and it is a leading manufacturer of own-label breakfast cereals . |
| 9 | Often the interaction between interest groups has consisted largely of assertion not fully supported by objective data or rational argument . |
| 10 | Even so , the number of people moving through particular age groups has varied substantially over the past two or three decades . |
| 11 | As a result , the size of almost all age groups has changed substantially over the past two decades , in marked contrast to the small increase registered by the overall population . |
| 12 | The number of drama teachers in schools has grown rapidly for years . |
| 13 | But the operating framework of meeting the needs of Catholic schools has remained firmly in focus . |
| 14 | He found that the number of mispricing signals has declined substantially over time . |
| 15 | Demand for the services offered by these units has varied considerably with a consequence that the length of time between first contact with the GP and first appointment has fluctuated between two weeks and three months . |
| 16 | However , as the use of computers has spread rapidly to large sectors of work and business , there has been a growing trend to encourage the use of computers in schools across the curriculum . |
| 17 | Research into the form and content of user interfaces for GIS has accelerated rapidly in the last couple of years . |
| 18 | The United Kingdom 's share of exports by the main manufacturing nations has declined dramatically in recent years . |
| 19 | The use of CDs has grown rapidly in recent years . |
| 20 | In the last thirty years archaeological investigation of deserted village sites has added substantially to our knowledge of peasant conditions , and will probably provide more information in future , particularly by enabling fuller comparisons to be made between different parts of the country . |
| 21 | However , the proportion of marriages involving widows or widowers has decreased steadily over the past 150 years ( for an elaboration of all these trends , see Haskey , 1987a ) . |
| 22 | In the first place , even though the population of inner city areas has declined markedly since the early 1970s , the job opportunities available to inner city residents have contracted even more rapidly . |
| 23 | I am pleased to say that unemployment in all these areas has fallen dramatically in the last 12 months-by 21 per cent . |
| 24 | Information on step-families has come primarily from researchers following up the impact of divorce , practitioners working with divorced parents and step-families , and most recently from step-parents themselves . |
| 25 | Whatever the merits of these arguments , there can be little doubt that for much of its existence the LDDC has not sought out partnership arrangements with elected local bodies — it has pursued market-led strategies whose impact on local communities has proved far from advantageous ; it has largely ignored local planning procedures ; and there has been little public accountability of its Policies and spending . |
| 26 | According to Miles Barber of Barbers Estate Agents ( 071–381 0112 ) , the level of enquiries about French property remains relatively high , although the number of transactions has fallen sharply since the peak of 1989 . |
| 27 | The cost of getting rid of paint sludges has risen tenfold to $250 a barrel . |
| 28 | It is not surprising that political activity by working-class city dwellers has declined sharply in recent decades . |
| 29 | The proportion of urban dwellers has changed little during the present century , though in reality over 90 per cent of the population now effectively lives an urban form of existence . |
| 30 | Alan Hingston , Executive Director of IDB 's Marketing Development Division , said : ‘ Scandinavia has long been one of IDB 's target regions and business for Northern Ireland companies has developed steadily over the past decade . |